Title
Lemming winter habitat choice - a snow fencing experiment
Author(s)
Reid, D.G., Bilodeau, F., Krebs, C.J., Gauthier, G., Kenney, A.J., Gilbert, B.S., Leung, M.C.-Y., Duchesne, D., & Hofer, E.
Published
2011
Publisher
Oecologia
Abstract
The insulative value of early and deep winter snow is thought to enhance winter reproduction and survival by arctic lemmings (Lemmus and Dicrostonyx spp). This leads to the general hypothesis that landscapes with persistently low lemming population densities, or low amplitude population fluctuations, have a low proportion of the land base with deep snow. This study experimentally tests a component of this hypothesis, that snow depth influences habitat choice, at three Canadian Arctic sites: Bylot Island, Nunavut; Herschel Island, Yukon; Komakuk Beach, Yukon.
Full Citation
Reid, D.G., Bilodeau, F., Krebs, C.J., Gauthier, G., Kenney, A.J., Gilbert, B.S., Leung, M.C.-Y., Duchesne, D., & Hofer, E. (2011). Lemming winter habitat choice: a snow fencing experiment. Oecologia, 168, 935-946.

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